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Opening the Virtual Volumes view
From the GUI main menu, do one of the following:
In metro node local
1. Click Provision Storage.
2. In the View by drop-down, click Virtual Volumes.
In metro node Metro
1. Click Provision Storage.
2. In the Provision on drop-down, select the cluster of the storage volume.
3. In the View by drop-down, select Virtual Volumes.
The Distributed Virtual Volumes view
The Distributed Virtual Volumes view lists all distributed virtual volumes in the system. Use this view to quickly see the status
of a distributed virtual volume. By default, virtual volumes are sorted by name in ascending alphabetical order. The arrow in the
default sort column indicates the direction of the sort; ascending (
) or descending ( ). You can sort columns of data,
select one or more objects in the list, and show or hide on the screen.
In the main panel of the screen, you can perform these tasks:
● Create a distributed virtual volumes
● Modify an existing distributed virtual volume
● Delete distributed virtual volumes
This screen also shows the following information about distributed virtual volumes:
Name
Definition
Virtual Volume The name of the volume.
Capacity The size of the volume.
Health The overall health of the volume. Virtual volume status provides more
information.
Operational Status Indicates how the virtual volume is functioning. Virtual volume status provides
more information.
Service Status Indicates how the virtual volume is functioning. Virtual volume status provides
more information.
Thin Enabled Indicates if the virtual volume is created as a thin volume. Possible values:
● Enabled — The volume was created as a thin volume.
● Disabled — The volume was not created as a thin volume although the
underlying storage is thin-capable
● Unavailable — The underlying storage is not thin-capable.
Expandable by The amount of space that is available for volume expansion. A volume that has
an Expandable by of 0 can still be expanded using concatenation. A volume that
has an Expandable by of > 0 can be expanded using storage volume expansion.
Expansion Method The expansion method available for this volume. Possible values:
● concatenation — The volume can be expanded using Concatenation or
RAID-C expansion.
● storage-volume — The volume can be expanded to the Expandable
capacity using storage volume expansion.
● not-supported — The volume does not support expansion.
Expansion Status The expansion status of the volume. The volume can be:
● - (dash) This volume can be expanded.
● failed — The last volume expansion on this volume failed. unknown —
The volume expansion status is unknown.
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